A tourist has captured rare footage of a marine mammal known as a skunk dolphin because of its coloring. The elusive marine ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

Researchers inside a deep-sea vehicle collected sea cucumbers from the seafloor, then discovered two new species. Jong Marshes via Unsplash Off the western coast of Australia, the Wallaby-Zenith ...

In a small, rented lab in the port of Los Angeles in May, Keith Matassa was working through a backlog of bodies on ice. Using a surgical knife, he carefully removed a California sea lion fetus from a ...